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Table 2. Maximum distances moved 
marked pheasants observed five or 
Study Area. 
between times of successive observations for 
more times each during winter, 1964-65, Sibley 
Number of Pheasants for Each Category of 
Miles Moved 
H 
!-!* 
1*-2 
2-2j 
Total 
Adu 1 1 cfcf 
2 
1 
3 
Adult 99 
19 
15 
5 
5 
2 
46 
Juvenile cfcf 
6 
3 
3 
12 
Juveni 1 e 99 
6 
5 
2 
2 
15 
Total 
33 
24 
10 
7 
2 
76 
2. Manipulation of Pheasant Habitat G. B. Joselyn 
The publi c ' s acceotance of grass - :aguie seedings along roadsides for pheasant 
nesting abitat over extensive areas will be dependent largely on the quality of 
those seedings. Experience on the Sibiey Study Are. since l 963 has shown that 
farmers have few objections to seeded roadsides provided the seeded areas are kept 
relatively free of weeds. 
Foxtail (Setaria spp.) , of the grass weeds, and curled dock (Rumex crispus) 
and goat s beard (Trag opoqn n sp.), among the broadleaf weeds, created some problems 
on seeded roadsides the first year of their existence (I 963 ). Experimental seedings 
s^nce 9 3 ave shown that improved tillage and seeding techniques offer the best 
ope .or controlling weeds. However, regardless of the techniques employed, weeds 
may a.wayj be present on newly seeded roadsides to some extent, which mav call for 
some ciiemical means of control . 
In August, [965, new seedings totaling approximately l£ miles in length were 
ma c o ong roadsides at three locations. The seedings at each of the three 
ocations were divided into four randomly selected segments of equal length for 
the study of experimental weed-control measures during the spring of I 966 ; the 
e.fectiveness of a pre-emergent grass-weed control chemical, Ramrod, and of a 
postrmergent broarlleaf-weed control chemical, 4-(2,4-DB) will be tested. The 
o owing epp , ications of chemicals on each of the three locations will be made: 
amro or. y, 4-(2,:-DB) only; 4-(2,4-DB) and Ramrod; end control (no treatment). 
Ramrod was applied in granular form on April I 5 . The broad Ieaf-weed control 
c emica will ^3 applieo during the first week of May; this chemical is supposed 
to e iminate broaoleaf weeds in established legume seedings without harming the 
seeded legumes (alfalfa and red clover). 
Vegetative analysis will be undertaken at various intervals throughout the 
summer to determine the elative frequency of occurrence of weeds among the treated 
and control segments. 
